The majority of Vietnamese people were refugees from North Vietnam and first came
to the UK after the reunification in 1975.
A total of 22,577 refugees from South East Asia made their home in Britain from
1975 until 1988. It estimated that at least 75% of the refugees were ethnically Chinese.
There were around 15,000 Vietnamese refugees in London. Vietnamese communities
were concentrated in Lewisham, Hackney, Tower Hamlets, New Ham, Peckham and Thamesmead......READ MORE